1st Edition
Jews in the Netherlands A Short History
224 Pages
by
Routledge
Most people know little more than fragments of Dutch Jewish history: the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam; Jewish socialism; the devastating years of the Second World War. So where is the storyline? What happened to the Jews in the Netherlands from the moment they first settled there permanently? This book answers that question. It presents the central points of 700 years of Jewish history in the... Read more
Introduction by the authors, 1295 Middle Ages: Jodenstraat in Maastricht, 1600 The seventeenth century: the century of 'New Jews', 1700 Eighteenth century: a time of expansion and stability, 1800 Nineteenth century, the century of integration, 1900 Twentieth century: a century of extremes, 2000 Twenty-first century, Glossary, Bibliography, Acknowledgements
Biography
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld is an independent scholar in early modern European Jewish History, concentrating in particular on social and cultural aspects of the Jews in the western Sephardi diaspora. Bart Wallet is professor of early modern and modern Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-editor-in-chief of Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands and editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies.
